OLD AGE PENSIONS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 5

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. ■ t *jjm Mi H W. Bishop, 8.M., paeatakd at Court on Saturday, and judgment in the cue against WilHam BMyjiraHH for having obtained a pension by imnsflw of" falsely repremsafcmg thai bos "irite property. , ' > *^lsgs Mr Donnelly appeared for the The case wa« heard tome weak* judgment reeenrved. »-« "wfifflj Mi Bishop, in giving judgment, tuM he mast iq>noZd the point taken by tbe* de* "" fciooe, bUat knoirledge of the *(g«it j ni!» of the .wife's property must be .eatajMSjbtd against the aocueoL Apart from th* '<&£• $I[Wa OttQxitances of this casej the otto* m prosecution to prove that there had beett' wilful miastatement of the fact*, or ♦U£ttlljr'j%|§f!§ keeping secret the detaiU in regard Iβ wife'e property. Tim remit of tie would inevitably hold open the 4uat/hrSWsm fraud m such case*. That being *vSrfla*:y'!i|3j comuStatwm with Mr BeethAin, tlU3r,lw4 : decided, ax all cases where both &a|bW|£ wife were producible, both mint 4* duced, and give evidence, and b* al.y examined as to their ttuau, answers pliwed on record, li false were then given the parties would fee Ja&to'"< J||||! to prosecution for perjury, in wteKawt i» proceedings being taken agaieet them MW the Old Age Peneione Act. Tbi» logical outcome of this proMontiiatt. , > Both caess agaiuet Shaw were tljtwlsydr ~[K\wM Tiie case againet llicbaal fraudulently obtaining an old age prWinil' ■• had been adjourned for the atiendanm tit ,' .£\ Mr Beotham. The Magistrate aaM Mt ):"U Btfctfown knew notbdng of the oaee. . Vvl Mr Dooneliy, Tor Qiunn, *aid tie* Mr -*->& Williams, Begieti-ar of Old Age Peoskui, -, JM hed notified hxm that the caw agtiasfe Qniaa '• iM TTOB abandoatd. *-